Fall Crafts for Kids from Our Favorite Blogs:Fall Felt Leaves

How to Do It: Trace an outline of a leaf on cardstock. Trace the patterns onto felt and cut out them out. (Visit MADE for more info on how to create "veins" for the leaves.) Use the leaves as decor, on a crown or wreath, or as a hair accessory.

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Pinecone Turkey

How to Do It: Color and cut out the shapes from the pine cone turkey template, or use the cut shapes as a pattern to cut your pieces from construction paper. Glue eyes and a beak on the head of the turkey and set aside. Apply glue to the bottom of an individual feather and adhere between the pine cone scales, then continue adhering feathers until you have the look you want. Apply glue to the front of the pine cone and adhere the turkey head. Let dry.

Harvest Crown

How to Do It: Tape two pieces of cardstock together on the front and back. Using a ruler, draw the top of the crown (visit MADE for more info). Staple the leaves on top, then wrap it around and staple it closed, to fit the size of your child's head.

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Leafy Lentil Mosaic

How to Do It: On a tray or paper, place a paper leaf cutout, glue and paintbrush, a set of lentils, and a fall leaf for inspiration. Put a little glue on the paper leaf, and make patterns using the lentils.

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Finding Fall Box

How to Do It: Collect six autumn items -- leaves, seed pods, acorns, small pine cones -- to display inside. Change and rotate the pieces of nature as you like, to display new findings. Visit Red Bird Crafts to see how to make the box.

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Fall Leaf Butterflies

What You’ll Need: Take leaves to a color copier and make lots of prints of multiple leaves, or print out pictures of leaves on a colour printer.

How to Do It: Cut out the leaves (young kids can cut out the leaves leaving about an 1/8" of white around the outside). The leaves are then to be cut in half right down the middle, along the spine. The two sides are then glued down with a little space left in between. A body and antennae are cut from scraps pieces, or from leftover stems.

Craft Stick Scarecrows

How to Do It: Glued craft sticks together and let them dry (about 10 sticks, with two sticks going across). Cut out hats, noses and mouths from the foam, and cut the pipe cleaners in thirds to use as straw hair.

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Paper Plate Owl

How to Do It: Paint the paper plate the color of an owl (optional). Snip the stems off the leaves, then glue them onto the plate as "feathers" for the body. Cut large black circles and smaller white circles for the eyes. Using the brown cardstock (construction paper also works), cut a triangle for the beak, a 4-inch square on the diagonal for the wings, and two 2-inch squares on the diagonal for the ears and feet.

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Leaf People Finger Puppets

How to Do It: Begin by hot gluing the leaf to the top of the cardboard tube for the head. Next, hot glue the twigs to the sides of the tube for the arms. Hot glue pebbles or small pieces of bark to the front of the tube for buttons. Finally, add wiggle eyes to the leaf head.

FROM CRAFTS BY AMANDA

Paper Bag Tree

How to Do It: Open the paper bag so that it can stand by itself. Carefully hold the bottom of the bag and twist just above the seam/fold several times.Use scissors to cut strips from the top of the bag down to the twisted section. Gather three strips at a time and twist together to form the branches. Continue twisting three strips until you run out of strips to twist. If you end up with an uneven amount, twist four together or two together at the end. Tear or cut small pieces of colorful tissue paper and glue a few on here and there as leaves for the branches.

Apple Printing

How to Do It: Pour paint onto a paper plate. Next, cut your apples as straight and flat as possible (lengthwise will show the apples’ true shape). Take a stick and put it in the top end of the apple to give your stamp a handle. Then dip your apple in paint, and stamp.

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Mini Acorn Caps

What You'll Need: Different colored tissue paper, small bowl of glue (wallpaper or paper mache glue preferred), acorn cups collected from a walk.

How to Do It: Tear the tissue paper into small pieces. Drop the tissue paper into the bowl of glue and squish it around. Gather balls of mulch, squash them and push lots of the glue out of them, then roll them into acorn shapes and pop them into the acorn caps. Let the acorns dry on the windowsill for a couple of days.

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We tapped the creative brains of our favorite bloggers to bring you adorable homemade crafts your kids can make or give as gifts. The best part? They're cheap: most are made with stuff you already have at home.
BY BROOKE SHOWELL